Release 9.3 (2020-02-03)

Even though this is a minor bump in the version, the code changes were quite significant. Apart from bug fixes, this will be the last planned release for the 9.x series.

• Improved support for ISO-8613-6 where no pair is given only the RGB value.
• Fixes to hi-color rendering.

Release 9.2 (2020-01-24)

• Critical bugfixes

Release 8.12 (2019-12-30)

This is the last release for 2019. Happy New Year !!

• Improved UTF-8 decoder.
• New error handling framework.
• Added run-time flag to turn off UTF-8 handling.
• Performance improvements to SGR handling.
• Detection and handling of C1 control characters.
• Bugfixes.

Thanks to Leon Winter for his excellent contributions to this release !

Release 8.7 (2019-12-17)

This is the first release in the 8.x code series. Here's what's new:

• New API for asynchronous (signal driven) I/O. Multiple instances are synchronized using the self-pipe trick.
• New API to query current cursor position.
• The vshell sample program has been updated to make async I/O a run-time option.
• Performance optimizations.
• Various bug-fixes included a long standing regression with keyboard modifiers (alt, shift, ctrl).

Many thanks to Leon Winters for his contributions in this release!

Release 7.5 (2019-10-16)

• Lots of code optimizations
• The "make package" target now builds RPM files in addition to DEB files

Release 7.4 (2019-10-14)

• Fixed a long-standing performance bug with MacOS.
• Eliminated thousands of calls to a costly routine improving overall performance.
• Refactored vshell demo program to better showcase capabilities in a tmux-like way.

Release 7.0 (2019-09-26)

• Implemented a history / scroll-back buffer and update API accordingly.
• Refactored vshell demo program to showcase history and use only wide character routines.
• Bugfixes for FreeBSD.

Release 6.22 (2019-09-03)

• Bugfixes and better handling of color support for FreeBSD
• Bugfixes for several escape sequences.
• Terminal resize will now preserve clipped data.
• Add help and version reporting to vshell demo program.

Release 6.16 (2019-08-15)

• Better compatibility with FreeBSD.
• Fixed a scroll bug introduced in the previous release.

Release 6.15 (2019-08-13)

• Improved conformance with vttest scenarios.
• Improved conformance with ncurses unit tests.
• New safeguards against malformed data.
• General bug-fixes and performance enhancements.